The deceased journalist Nayaz Khan was a reporter with Praja TV, a Kannada news channel in Karnataka. The journalist was found dead at his residence in KR Puram. It was his wife who entered the room in the morning and was shocked to see her husband’s body hanging

When Riyaz saw his face on few Kannada news channels, he rushed to the police station with his family members and friends saying that he not a terrorist. On May 7, security personnel stopped a man when the scanner at the entrance to the Majestic metro station in Bengaluru beeped as he passed through it.